FVL: Army Can Afford Both Scout & Transport, General Pledges

FVL: Army Can Afford Both Scout & Transport, General Pledges
FVL: Army Can Afford Both Scout & Transport, General Pledges

The Army has learned from the Comanche scout chopper debacle, where it spent $9 billion in today’s dollars to get just two prototypes. With Future Vertical Lift, $7 billion will get 18 prototype aircraft, counting both the FARA scout and FLRAA transport.

FARA: Five-Way Fight For Army’s Future Scout

FARA: Five-Way Fight For Army’s Future Scout
FARA: Five-Way Fight For Army’s Future Scout

AVX/L3, Bell, Boeing, Karem, and Sikorsky have submitted their designs for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft. None of them is a conventional helicopter.